FEF College industry Conference

November 11-13, 2004
AFS HR Conference – November 10-11, 2004
Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois

One of the highlights of the year for metal casters is the annual FEF College Industry Conference. This year FEF will combine with AFS and the Human Resource Division to offer two excellent programs back to back.

The HR conference will precede the FEF conference with both being held at the historic Drake Hotel in Chicago. The HR program will include nationally known speakers who will discuss issues of concern – the rising cost of healthcare, motivating and keeping top performers, compensation trends, military leave obligations, workplace implications of same-sex marriages and managing the Hispanic worker.

Human Resource executives can then choose to participate in the FEF conference where they will have an opportunity to meet over 100 of the best metal casting students in North America. In addition, industry leaders who were once FEF scholars themselves, will present outstanding educational speeches. All paid participants with the AFS HR meeting will be eligible for a 25% reduction in FEF conference registration fees. In addition, all companies registering for the first time for the Industry Information Session, with 1 or more registered people, will have the industry table fee of $400 waived for this year.

The Keynote address for the FEF CIC will be given by Tom Prucha, Vice President, Technical Services of Intermet Corporation. The panelists will be Glenn Byczynski of Nemak, Steve Renz of Howmet Castings, and Daniel Twarog of North American Die Casting Association. All are former FEF students with each representing a different stage in work experience and outlook for the future of the industry. Earl Brooks, II, President of Tri-State University in Angola, Indiana, will be the Awards Breakfast speaker.

The FEF Annual Banquet will be held in the Gold Coast Room at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. We will enjoy a buffet of Drake specialties followed by a presentation by internationally recognized speaker Dan Clark. Dan is a New York Times best selling author and primary contributing author for Chicken Soup for the Soul and Chicken Soup for the College Soul; along with twenty other books. He is also an entertainer, songwriter/recording artist, and in 1982 was named Outstanding Young Man of America with the National Speakers Association. The student delegates will join the banquet for dessert and both industry people and college students will enjoy Dan’s highly charged and inspirational presentation. Dan Clark has been listed as one of the top ten speakers in the world.

The FEF College Industry Conference brochure will be mailed out in August. You can also check it out and register on the FEF website after August 1, 2004.

For more information contact the FEF Office at 847/705-8400; (fax) 847/705-8448; email info@fefoffice.org; web page http://www.fefoffice.org. Registrations can be taken now; Drake Hotel reservations can be made at 312/787-2200

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